My First Instagram Journey - (Newbie)

MPSHURO

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Alright guys, I just stumbled upon BHW yesterday while looking for ways to grow my Insta accounts. How convenient that I wound up here...it's a complete goldmine. A huge thank-you to everyone who has shared any sort of tip or advice, I'm soaking it in like a sponge.

Anyways, I figured I better get cracking with what I've learned so far and start my first journey with the tactics described around the forums, specifically from Euphorix and ruler2020. I would link the threads I'm referring to but I'm still limited from doing that since I'm new. Once I can, I will.

My plan

I have three accounts. two accounts are for specific niches, the third account is more of a personal account with light targeting. My personal account I've had for a few months. My two niche-specific accounts I started just today. Here are my stats so far:


Account Niche 1: 64 Followers 20 - 70 likes on each post. 0 - 3 comments on each post.

Account Niche 2: 10 Followers 1 - 5 likes on each post. 0 - 1 comments on each post.

Personal Account: 1,385 Followers 20 - 100 likes on each post. 0 - 10 comments on each post.


I will grow accounts 1 and 2 consistently every day with the methods in the threads above. I am borrowing content and sprinkling in my own content with it. Everything is high quality. I am going to interact with my followers as much as possible and use some posts that call for engagement (example: asking a question in the caption, allowing submissions, etc). The only difference is that I'm going to use hashtags. I'm not going to use any bots. I will unfollow about 50 - 100 people a day depending on what I see fit. Since I'm not using bots and I'm starting from scratch, this will be a long journey.


The third account is going to be lightly worked. I use all of my own content. I recently picked up a DSLR and I'm learning photography so the content quality is growing. My personal account is niche-related to account 1, so I will shout my personal account out on account number 1 as it grows, and attempt to drive traffic to my personal account from account 1 as much as possible (Any other ideas on how to do this?)

Account number 2 is niche-related to my Facebook account. I simply put my FB in the bio and will see how the traffic moves from IG to FB for a while. I will use all the same methods as with account 1.


Monetization

This is something that will be worked out more as my followers grow, but I have an outline.

Account 1: Selling my own products, charging users for shout-outs, possibly CPA down the road.

Account 2: Selling my own service, charging users for shout-outs. No CPA.

Personal Account: Since it's niche-related to #1, I plan on selling my product through here. No shout-outs or CPA.



That's all for now, please let me know if there is anything I should consider (I'm a complete newbie at this). I will update at minimum once a week.
 
Best of luck, what do you mean selling your own service?
What are you selling?

And you can add link of personal account to bio of account 1 to drive some more traffic.
 
Best of luck, what do you mean selling your own service?
What are you selling?

And you can add link of personal account to bio of account 1 to drive some more traffic.


True, I can do that. Thanks.

I won't say because it might give away my niche but basically it's an educational service/community that I currently profit from on other social media. I'm using IG to scale up.
 
***Update***


Account 1: 147 followers

Account 2: 46 followers

Personal: 1,383


Account 1 really took off. Account 2 is growing slowly for some reason. I'm going to experiment with the posts, try to push the quality. Personal account I haven't touched.
 
Nice to see that you are doing everything manually, best of luck on your journey.
 
Good luck on your journey! Doing something similar myself.
 
Seems like a great journey for a beginner, I should say. I will be following this journey. Keep pushing!
 
***Update***

Account 1: 459 followers
Account 2: 110 followers
Personal : 1,458 followers


Clearly I am focused on account #1. I better start giving Account #2 a fair shot or this won't work, I need to try harder. My personal account is going smoothly, I haven't used any tactics on it besides putting the link in account #1. Engagement is fair.
 
So far so good! Hope you won't just abandon your journey. Good luck! :)
 
**Update**

Account 1: 985 followers
Account 2: 161
Account 3: 1470

I am very happy with Account 1's growth. Believe it or not I already have people asking for shoutouts. I have been giving them out for free for now but my traffic is getting pretty large considering I only have under 1,000 followers. My best post has 436 likes, others have 300+, and the norm is 100-200+.

Account 2 I'm kind of worried about. Even when I post consistently and use the same methods, the follow back rate is way below 33%. I think maybe my niche is over saturated. I don't know, should I keep pushing this or should I start over with something new?

Also when should I begin charging for shouts? I know most people around here say when you have 50k followers but about 7-10 people have asked for shouts so far. Should I keep doing it for free until I hit maybe 5k? 10k?
 
Low followback rate.. Tweak it / rethink your plan.. Although, nice engagement ratio!
 
Low followback rate.. Tweak it / rethink your plan.. Although, nice engagement ratio!


Yep, did something a little differently today. Went to a different page to follow new people. Ended today with 171 followers on that account. I'll keep trying this
 
Hit 1,024 followers on account 1 today. Was pretty excited about that. Only a matter of time and consistency now. Any thoughts on the shoutout thing I mentioned?
 
Went over my once-a-week mark, oops. But I am going strong. 2,050 followers on account 1 as of right now.

I decided to start over with account 2 entirely.
 
Hey,

You have an awesome progress going, i started about a week or so ago and haven't even hit the 1k follower mark yet :( You seem to have found a good niche and good account to follow! Best of luck! Will follow along.
 
Wow, 2000 followers in less than a month manually - that seems to be a great start! Good luck on your journey, looking forward to see your progress and some tips along the way :)
 
Good luck with your journey. In last week it's almost 11 instagram journey I noticed.
 
2,820 followers today, my best post has 600+ likes.

Really considering charging $5-10 for shoutouts once I reach 5,000 followers. All of the shoutouts I've given for free so far have generated 200+ likes. I speculate that when I reach 5,000 I can reach 500+ likes on submissions that I put out. Thoughts?

Also, I'm very excited because I came up with a business idea for Account 1's niche. Not simply a "monetization method", but an actual business idea. I need someone to brainstorm with though....but I'm going to go even harder now. That means I'm going to have to neglect the other accounts, but I don't mind that. I think I have the potential to go above and beyond with this.
 
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